Is something wrong with my body?

[Anonymous]

I am so frustrated! I gained 5 pounds in 2 days! Every time I eat food, my stomach expands enormously like a balloon! I feel so embarrassed to go out and eat with my friends or even by myself because every time I eat a meal, my stomach gets so big! In the mornings when I wake up, my stomach is flat as an iron! Why do I gain weight so easily? I am sad? :/

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+1 y

Honestly, I am not even exaggerating! People that don't know me think I am like 5 months pregnant every time after I eat a meal, it gets that big! And in the morning it is flat! Ugh, help please? And I don't like the fact that I gain so much weight so easily!

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+1 y

Has this happened to any other girls before? Is it normal? If so, do you know what caused it and how it can be treated?

[madmisskelly]

Its impossible for you to have gained 5 pounds in 2 days. You would have had to have eaten 7,000 calories per day, and have done absolutely nothing.

Chances are, you have loaded up on carb heavy foods and on lots of meat, beer, soda, etc.

Carbs are water loving so they hold onto water, making you bloat. Meat takes longer to digest and sits in your stomach for a while, and soda fills you with air. Beer and what not add unnecessary carbs and calories that can bloat you.

Cut carbs the next few days and keep them to a minimum. Instead, eat lean, high quality protein. Eggs, yogurt, milk, and lean meats. Drink lots of water, and keep active. I bet you will notice a change in a few days.

[Asker]

I am not lying. I did gain 5 pounds in 2 days. It shows it on the scale. I wish I was making this up! It's not like I want this to happen to me.

[madmisskelly]

Water weight and bloat does show on the scale. So does the food that you eat. Just because you have chewed it up doe not make it weight less. I'm a nutrition major. I know these things. It is nearly impossibly to gain 5 points of fat in 2 days unless you have been non stop eating high fat foods, not exercising. Or, you have starved yourself for a long time and are all of a sudden eating more.

[minx101d]

5 lbs in two days sounds more like water weight which could either have to do with where you are in your cycle, damn hormones, or if you ate a lot of simply carbs, sugar or salt. Are you eating a lot of processed foods this could account for the excess bloating.

[theydidntnameme]

when you eat food it has to go somewhere. it goes into your stomach. food takes hoooooouuuuuurrrrrrrsssss to digest. its in your stomach while its being digested. when you wake up, all the food is digested so your stomach is flat.

this happens to everyone. but I don't know why in your situation it could be so obvious. it could be due to your size or how much you eat, etc.

[mangageek]

Idk about the weight gain but my stomach gets big when I only eat a few big meals or eat too fast. Try eating slower and eat more small meals